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Nobody’s gone there in the past two weeks. My red haze attack ruined everything, since it’s not a coincidence that Lenny vanished just as Dickdisappeared—my brothers took care of the bodies and the house. Michael and Sari were only happy to use Oxy cleaners for the first time. And it seems to work well at erasing blood, and the smell doesn’t alert as much as bleach does.

“Raph and I had a nice talk with Bill, Scorpion’s manager, in the FUNS room.” Meaning Rami tortured and killed him. Bill was a disgusting child molester. I wanted to take care of him, but leaving Ollie alone isn’t an option at the moment. And we haven’t talked about my side business again since that night. I’m waiting for him to make the first move.

“FUNS room?” Ollie asks.

“It’s where they kill the donors,” Lori explains while sipping his coffee. He must have accepted Michael’s invitation to visit the base.

Ollie nods and then frowns, looking down at the table.

“Bill mostly cried and begged,” Rami explains. “But told us that he heard Lenny having a call withthe Phoenix.”

“The Phoenix,” Gabe repeats.

“That’s how Lenny called them. Nobody has ever heard of them. Serena and I checked everywhere, on the dark web and on the street—nothing.”

“They must be new,” Gabe declares.

“Uh-huh. And they talked to Lenny about two more shipments of boys,” Rami adds.

I growl. “Human trafficking.”

“It looks like they are the ones delivering the boys. And they must be involved with the new drugs as well. Bill wasn’t very helpful after that, and Raph wanted to go back to Michael, so we cut it short.”

“We have only a fake name,” Ollie states, and thatwemakes me cover his hand on my thigh and squeeze.

“I might have another way,” Rami says, “Lenny never said the names of those other two fighters who like to beat up innocent boys. But I bet Scorpion is one of them.”

“Why?” Gabe asks.

“We crossed paths in a couple of bars.” When he sayscrossed paths, it means Rami made it happen. I didn’t know about this, but Rami always does shit without saying a word.

“Did you fuck him, Red Beard?” Lori derails the conversation.

“Who says I'm the top, Gremlin?” Rami replies.

“He definitely let the scorpion guy fuck him,” Lori mumbles.

“A very drunk Scorpion let slip a few things while we were talking a few nights ago that now finally make sense.” Rami explains. “I’m a mega idiot for not putting the puzzle pieces together. Rague, I’ll go get Scorpion with Uri, and take him to the base.”

I should be the one going. This is our case. But the thought of leaving Ollie alone feels fucking wrong. And he doesn't seem ready to want to explore my family business yet.

So I agree with Rami and then hang up.

“The base?” Ollie turns to me.

“It’s what we call the place where Michael and Sari work on the DNA samples and we kill the donors,” I tell him, without sugarcoating it.

He nods while his eyes lower to the table again.

I hear Ollie’s phone ringing from our bedroom, and he quickly goes to retrieve it.

“Who is it?” Lori yells at him.

“Brad!” Ollie shouts back, walking down the hallway. They’re screamers, I’ve learned that in the last few weeks.

“Brad?” he answers and stops dead in the kitchen doorway. “What do you mean they took him? Slow down.”

I quickly go to Ollie.